tubthumping

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noun

Aggressive political or commercial promotion.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of tubthump
nountubthumping (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAggressive political or commercial promotion.

    1939, Railway Age, vol. 107, Oct.-Dec. But there is usually more to Automobile Week than good-natured tubthumping for the new passenger car models.

    1 more example

    […] the general public, who imagine — poor fools — that all the fury and tubthumping at Westminster is honest emotion, […].

    1914, Charles G. Harper, The Kentish Coast, page 344
adjectivetubthumping (comparative more tubthumping, superlative most tubthumping)

comparative more tubthumping · superlative most tubthumping

  1. Brash, self-promoting.

    "Our pictures avoid deliberate, tubthumping propaganda but they exude the spirit of democracy."

    1994, Stephen Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics, page 199

Origin

From tub + thumping.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tubthumping,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tubthumping.

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